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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
agonizing
adjective
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▪ A year later he died after suffering months of agonizing pain.
▪ In retrospect, the decision to build the bomb was fraught with agonizing ambiguities.
▪ In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries many criminals were subjected to that agonizing death.
▪ The red line on the thermometer on the wall of Caxton House crept up with agonizing slowness.
▪ There was one present which gave Diana the most agonizing decision of her young life.
▪ Throughout these long, agonizing months, their lives are accompanied by the unending cacophony of my screaming.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
agonizing

agonizing \agonizing\ adj. causing agony. Opposite to painless.

Syn: excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome.

Wiktionary
agonizing

  1. Causing agony. n. The act of one who agonizes. v

  2. (present participle of agonize English)

WordNet
agonizing

adj. extremely painful [syn: agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome]

Usage examples of "agonizing".

His breath possessed her mouth, moving in and out in agonizing pulses.

I seem to remember that once the West Lighthouse was right under me, and then there was a sort of agonizing feeling, as if I were in an earthquake, and I came back and found you shaking my body.

Here, he is living on borrowed time and, soon or late, will suffer a long, agonizing, messy death.

A sudden, agonizing fiery ball of pain shot through him, choking his words, making him stagger slightly.

To ease his agonizing guilt, he needed to punish himself, she realized.

After eight long years of pain and fear, she now knew why her body turned traitor on her, beginning with an overwhelming arousal and ending with a bleak, almost agonizing pain before slowly diminishing.

An agonizing pleasure that she knew she would soon be helpless against.

The agonizing pain would soon be ripping through her womb as her body fought to conceive.

I had to stand and watch my twin sister, half dead already after months of torture, die a slow and agonizing death.

It came out of nowhere, fed on whispers, and took the innocent and the guilty alike into agonizing darkness.

This kind of work, particularly in the early stages of a difficult cryptanalysis, is perhaps the most excruciating, exasperating, agonizing mental process known to man.

Ariana absently rubbed her stomach, her mind agonizing over what viciousness Grader had in store for her now.

The exact position and dimensions of the excavation were relayed to the icebreakers and the Hawkbill, then the containment booms were slowly cinched together with agonizing slowness to avoid losing any portion of the trapped surface water.

After a week--though that week, with its agonizing enforced idleness, was long enough--he was offered the managership of an hotel in Wilmington, and took it, leaving Effie May and Luke in Mount Vernon.

Cruz groaned in agonizing pain as his eardrums exploded, the blow having separated the anvil where it joins the stirrup, disrupting the ossicular chain, and resulting in his sudden deafness.